| When you think of purity, what comes to mind? And why is purity often relegated to conversations of sexuality, when the word itself seems so much broader? “This is one of Welcher’s most instructive critiques: that purity culture abstracted sexual purity from a larger discipleship conversation,” writes Jen Pollock Michel in her review of Rachel Joy Welcher’s Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality. “It neglected to offer a ‘whole-person theology,’ one teaching us to offer every square inch of our lives to God.” In her review, Michel joins Welcher in imagining a better, more comprehensive theology of sexual purity. May we, imperfect disciples raising imperfect disciples, be just as passionate in pursuing wholehearted holiness. | 